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14 Aug, 9 tweets, 4 min read
⚠️Worried—Skyrocketing ~800%⬆️ in nursing homes with #COVID19 in 1 month in Texas. Even scarier—nearly half of TX nursing home staff are unvaccinated! Texas ranks 46th for vaccinated nursing home residents & 33rd for vaxxed nursing home staff. @GovAbbott?🧵texastribune.org/2021/08/13/cor…
2) Nursing home residents were among the hardest hit by COVID-19 last year as the virus tore through facilities at an alarming rate. >400 Texas nursing home residents died during a single week in August 2020; since the pandemic began, 9,095 have died after contracting COVID-19
3) “But after seeing infections remain relatively low in recent months, the state’s more than 1,200 nursing homes are seeing a new wave of infections as COVID-19 cases explode around the state, driven by the highly contagious delta variant:
4) 📌The number of Texas nursing homes with active COVID-19 cases has risen by 773% in the past month, from 56 in mid-July to 489 on Aug. 11. That’s still well below the peak in January, when more than 900 facilities had at least one active case.
5) 📌Deaths are increasing as well. From July 21 to Aug. 11, 84 nursing home residents died from COVID-19, compared to seven deaths during the four-week period before.
📌Roughly 76% of nursing home residents in Texas have been fully vaccinated. The national average is 82%.
6) In some ways, we know @GregAbbott_TX is too chicken 🐓 politically institute a vaccine mandate for nursing home staff. He shouldn’t be, but @GovAbbott is too beholden to his base. He should at very least mandate nursing home residents get shots and get a 3rd shot too! Please.
7) so how many deaths is @GregAbbott_TX plausibly responsible for? Let’s compare it to other more vaccinated states… Texas poor leadership in not getting enough vaccinated is responsible for ~1900 extra deaths and 32,000 hospitalizations, says new Yale study. @GovAbbott?
8) Texas is now both running out of hospital beds and out of staff for tending to the hospital beds. Double whammy. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/12…
9) Everything is bigger in Texas they say…

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16 Aug
This could become Fall of Saigon 2.0 or worse — the Fall of Kabul and the massive throngs of people trying to flee at Kabul Airport. Can’t blame them. Where are the international support to send passenger jets to airlift them all out?! #Kabul

2) You know if it was you in Afghanistan right now, you would be doing this too to save your life.
3) the airport’s tarmac is just overrun right now.
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15 Aug
To those who triumphantly declared “Pandemic is over” a few months ago… now we are in deeper pandemic with #DeltaVariant than ever before because we didn’t high filtration #MaskUp, #vaccinate or ventilate/disinfect indoor air—and ignored India warnings.
2) what pisses me off now is that we have truly endangered our children this time around. No vaccines for kids under 12 yet.
This is now the result — all time RECORD HIGH hospitalization in kids now with #DeltaVariant wave!!!
3) Also infuriating to me is how many used insider connections to profiteer off of massive secret back channels during the pandemic.
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14 Aug
📍“Zero ICU beds left for children” judge @clayjenkins says. "That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has something & needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have COVID and need an ICU bed—we don't have one. ➡️Your child will wait for another child to die” 😢 🧵
2) 2The judge added no ICU beds have been available for children for at least 24 hours. The Texas Department of State Health Services told CNN the shortage of pediatric ICU beds is related to a shortage in medical staff. abc13.com/dallas-county-…
3) "Hospitals are licensed for a specific number of beds and most hospitals regularly staff fewer beds than they are licensed for. With the increase in COVID cases, hospitals are experiencing a shortage of people to staff the beds that they are licensed for”
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14 Aug
⚠️DISTORTING DEATH TREND—Florida changed how it reports #COVID19 deaths. Result? Fewer recent “new deaths”. While deaths looks like going “down”—in actuality—deaths are going up in the more common reporting method, by taking advantage of delays. Lowdown—🧵
sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl…
2) “Just as a highly contagious new delta variant sent Florida into a vicious COVID-19 surge, the state Department of Health changed the way it reports cases and deaths attributed to the virus.
The result: Florida no longer provides a real-time picture of how COVID is impacting”
3) The most dramatic example is that Florida’s daily death count had been trending upward since the end of June, but with the recent adjustments, the number of deaths due to COVID appeared to decline dramatically over the past week. At least on paper. ⚠️
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14 Aug
📍BATTLE HEATING UP—After Florida threatened to withhold funds from schools that try to mandate masks to slow #COVID19—President Biden’s Education @SecCardona rebukes @GovRonDeSantis, saying FL cannot withhold school funding, & offers to **send schools direct federal money**—Wow!
2) why is he so crazy? “DeSantis has raked in campaign cash by attacking Biden and his administration’s coronavirus response, going so far as to single out Anthony Fauci, by selling “Don’t Fauci My Florida” campaign merchandise as Covid cases began rising.
politico.com/news/2021/08/1…
3) DeSantis campaign adviser and executive director of the Republican Party of Florida says... “Gov. DeSantis doesn’t care what those in the D.C. bubble think or say, he only cares about Florida’s safety and success all the while protecting individual liberties.”
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13 Aug
BREAKING—CDC experts vote overwhelmingly to recommend an additional dose of #COVID19 vaccines for some immunocompromised individuals. @CDCDirector is expected to give final approval within hours—allowing 3rd Pfizer or Moderna shots as soon as this weekend.
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08…
2) Breakthroughs happen, especially in the elderly and immunocompromised. But don’t let anti vaxxers use it as an excuse not to vaccinate. 👇
3) Here is why immunocompromised people need more protection from #COVID19. Much more risk of severe disease, lower neutralization, have prolonged illness, and **more likely to transmit to others**! cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…
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